We would like to thank all of the presenters during the RMS-SEPM Student Research Symposium. There was a great turnout for both days and the members were impressed by the quality of the talks. Although this is the first time that this event was held in a virtual format, it allowed more students from schools around the Rocky Mountain region to participate. Of particular note was a great presentation titled “Eocene Basin Record of Metamorphic Core Complex Exhumation in the Western United States Cordillera” by Haley Thorson, a PhD student at the University of Idaho and 2020 recipient of the Donald L. Smith Research Grant. It is great to see the generous contributions to our student scholarships being used for impactful field work and lab analyses.

From Colorado School of Mines, we had two great talks on the Lewis Shale from Thomas Martin and Carolina Mayorga, a talk on the Skull Creek Formation by Patrick Sullivan and one by Hanaga Simabrata on the Cutoff Formation in the Guadalupe Mountains. It was also great to see the research done in other basins by students attending schools within the Rocky Mountain Region. We thank both Teresa Langenkamp (Colorado State University) for her talk from the Magallanes Basin in Chile titled “Quantitatively Evaluating Deepwater Depositional Architecture from 3D Synthetic Seismic Attributes” and one from Annie Smoot (Brigham Young University) titled “Reservoir Characterization of the Albian-Cenomanian Nanushuk Formation, North Slope, Alaska through Facies Distribution Analysis.”

If you missed the talks or would like more information, write us at information@rmssepm.com and we’d be happy to get you in contact with the students.

RMS-SEPM is a proud sponsor of student research in the geosciences and we hope that you join us for the next event.